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On E3's Awards, Anticipation, Predictions

Posted by simoniker on from the are-we-nearly-there-yet? dept.

Thanks to HomeLAN Fed for its article discussing the state of the annual 'Best Of E3' game awards, in which the writer suggests that the "E3 awards are a bit of a sham and... a lot of games that get these awards are either not released in the coming year or if they are they are not as good as their E3 presentations make them out to be." He points out that "...out of the 16 categories that the Game Critics E3 awards had last year, 10 of them went to games that have not yet come out and won't be out until after E3 2004." Elsewhere, GameSpot focuses its 'GameSpotting' editorials on the forthcoming E3 trade show itself, suggesting that the show "is becoming a bigger and bigger source of stress and anxiety to the gaming industry as time goes by", even taking into account the excitement of "the biggest video game convention on God's green earth."

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  1. GuildWars by SpecialKae · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out Guildwars E3 for Everyone

    The what looks to be awesome game Guildwars (from former employees of Blizzard, making it out to be a "Diablo 3" of sorts) is offering their client for everyone to play during E3. I think it's a great idea, so you can judge for yourself how it is, rather than reading hyped up previews. I don't know about you, but I would love to go but probably would never be able to, so I think opening up more to the public works well. Either way free gaming is free gaming.

  2. Once more, the deal with E3 by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 2, Informative

    The deal with E3 is, ITS NOT FOR YOU. E3 is a trade show. This means it is for people involved with the trade. E3 exists so publishers can sell their wares (pun quite intended) to retailers. The hype is in the hope that Wal-Mart will buy 1M copies instead of 20k. Games are shown far in advance so that important people (I think you guys call the PHB's) can make long term decisions for companies all along the manufacture and distribution trail. Sometimes a game wins an award in a year wherein the game is not ready to be released. That's noone fault but all the other companies who failed to produce a demo better than one for a product THAT IS TWO YEARS AWAY.

    In summation, don't drool over E3. Its only you that will be hurt. E3 is not approached at all as a way to hype up fanboys, but to hype up Blockbuster so it buys more copies to satisfy is Guarenteed to be There promise or whatever. Once again, if you hang on every word of every report from E3, its your own fault.

    That said, I'll be there. HA